In many ways. It's a pity that the DNC didn't have more respect, to make sure that the first black winner of a U. S. presidential election, historic in and of itself, wasn't potentially tainted. But, then again, very few Democrats give a flying fig about the Constitution, so it begins to make sense. A surprising number of nominal conservatives don't seem to care, either. It's been eye-opening.
I tried to find a political black democrat that wasn't tainted. Name one!
The democrats didn’t care if he was actually eligible only if he could game the system for their success. You see, the black voter is assumed to belong to the democrat party. The black voters were guaranteed to vote for a black candidate even if ineligible, so the democrats just used Barry Soetoro to manipulate black voters and whine-prone liberals. And it worked, so far ...